Vice President - Safety

Construction Resources Management, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 210,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Employer-paid medical plan with HRA

Dental, vision, and life insurance

FSA

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Disability coverage (short & long-term

Paid parental leave

Generous PTO and holidays

Profit sharing

Training and professional development

Job summary

Walbec is seeking a Vice President of Safety to lead safety strategy across construction, materials production, transportation, and field operations. This executive will drive accountability, strengthen field relationships, and ensure every team member can work safely from planning through execution.

The role partners with operations and HR to integrate risk prevention into decisions and uses data to focus improvements, with safety results as a key measure of success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent relevant experience.
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or equivalent credential is highly valued.
• Experience leading safety programs across multi-site operations.

Responsibilities

• Set safety vision and integrate risk prevention into business planning.
• Partner with Operations, HR, and leaders to own safe execution across sites.
• Guide high-consequence risk prevention and incident learning programs.
• Build a safety organization with clear accountability and field presence.
• Improve safety data, leading indicators, and performance reporting.
• Drive culture of reporting, stop-work decisions, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Strategic safety leadership

Executive influence

Data-driven safety management

Regulatory compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in related discipline

Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

Make safety central to how work gets done. At Walbec, safety is not a separate initiative or a checklist completed after decisions are made. It must be considered from the earliest stages of planning through every day of execution. We are seeking a Vice President of Safety who will help make the protection of our people a defining part of how we lead, plan, invest, and operate. This executive will lead safety strategy across our construction, materials production, transportation, and field operations. Working closely with operational leaders, the VP will strengthen accountability, build trusted relationships in the field, and ensure that employees have the support, information, and authority to work safely. Our expectation is simple and important: every team member should return home with the same health and physical abilities they brought to work.

What You Will Lead

• Enterprise strategy: Set a compelling safety vision and integrate risk prevention into business planning, capital decisions, estimating, scheduling, staffing, and operational priorities.
• Operational partnership: Help executives, managers, supervisors, and crews own safe execution; identify and resolve production pressures and planning gaps before they expose people to risk.
• High-consequence risk prevention: Guide technical safety programs, critical-risk controls, incident learning, regulatory safety obligations, and appropriate escalation of serious hazards.
• Safety team leadership: Develop an effective Safety organization with clear accountability, strong field presence, consistent technical standards, and a coaching-oriented service model.
• Data-informed decisions: Improve the reliability and use of safety information, leading indicators, incident insights, and performance reporting to focus effort where it matters most.
• Culture and continuous improvement: Build employee trust, encourage reporting and stop-work decisions, turn feedback into improvements, and sustain change across business units.
• Cross-functional integration: Partner with Operations, Human Resources, and other enterprise functions, maintaining technical occupational safety leadership while designated administrative compliance activities are managed through HR.

What You Bring

• Progressive safety leadership experience in construction, materials, transportation, or similarly complex, high-hazard, multi-site operations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead strategically, influence senior executives, develop teams, and build accountability across decentralized operations.
• Strong knowledge of occupational safety, serious injury prevention, operational risk controls, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience using data, management systems, and organizational change to deliver measurable, lasting improvements.
• Credibility with field employees and the judgment to address difficult safety and production decisions constructively.
• A bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or equivalent relevant experience; willingness to travel regularly to operating locations. Experience in heavy civil construction, asphalt, aggregate, paving, traffic control, or vertically integrated operations—and a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or comparable credential is especially valuable.

The Opportunity

This is an enterprise leadership opportunity for someone who can connect long-term strategy with real work in the field. Success will be measured not only by safety results, but by stronger planning, better decisions, more capable leaders, trustworthy information, and employees who know their concerns are heard and addressed.

The Benefits

• Competitive compensation aligned with industry standards
• Employer Paid Medical Plan with HRA contribution (eligibility requirements)
• Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
• Flex Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Company-paid short and long-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Profit sharing
• Robust Walbec training and professional development program
• Ongoing career growth opportunities

Equal Opportunity and Accessibility

Walbec is an equal opportunity employer.

We consider qualified applicants without unlawful discrimination on the basis of any status protected by applicable federal, Wisconsin, or local law.

Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified applicants and employees in accordance with applicable law.

Applicants may contact Human Resources to request an accommodation during the hiring process.

Women and minorities are encouraged to apply!

Walbec is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) and affirmative action employer.

It is our practice to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants.

In addition, it is the policy of the Company to comply with applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in each locality in which the Company has employees.

Walbec

Walbec is a family of seven construction and engineering companies—including Payne + Dolan, Northeast Asphalt, Zenith Tech, Parisi, FA Industrial, Premier Concrete, and Construction Resources Management—delivering materials, design, engineering, and construction services throughout the Midwest. Together, we build and improve the infrastructure that supports the places where people live, work, and travel.

Multi-year Milwaukee Business Journal Best Place to Work honoree

Best Place to Work by Employ Humanity.

Multi-year Best Internship Program by Employ Humanity.

Proud partners of the Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Brewers

Walbec is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) and affirmative Action Employer.

It is our practice to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants.

In addition, it is the policy of the Company to comply with applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in each locality in which the Company has employees.

Each company brings its own expertise, culture, and career paths, but all are united by a commitment to hard work, continuous improvement, and delivering exceptional results. Together, our team members share knowledge, solve complex challenges, and create opportunities that help people, projects, and communities thrive.